Lynx Innovations makes Paddock Control for motorsport clubs, Drystone for people who want to keep their Slack history, and Custodian for owners who like to know where their vehicle is.
We are a UK software company. As well as our own products, we build bespoke software for other businesses.
Paddock Control
Club management software for UK motorsport clubs, car clubs, karting tracks and race organisers.
Available now at paddockcontrol.com.
Paddock Control keeps a club’s memberships, online event entries, sign-on and payments in one place. It takes over from the spreadsheet, the clipboard at sign-on and the plain-text newsletter.
Members get a portal where they join, renew, enter events, pay by card and keep their vehicles and documents up to date. It carries the club’s own colours and can sit on the club’s own web address.
For the committee there are championships and venues, invoices and payment links, reports and exports. Clubs can email or text their members, publish a digital magazine and send documents to be signed online. Roles decide who can see and change what, and an audit log keeps a record.
Drystone for Slack
Your Slack history, on a disk you own.
Drystone runs on Mac (Apple silicon), Windows and Linux, with a free command-line tool. Find out more about Drystone for Slack at getdrystone.com.
Drystone is a desktop app that exports the Slack messages and files you can see into an archive on your own computer. It’s the backup you still have after you leave a job, a workspace closes or history expires on Slack’s free plan.
Your messages and files go straight from Slack to your computer. They never pass through our servers, so we never see them. Drystone only reads from Slack and never changes anything there.
You choose which channels, private channels and DMs to keep. Read them back in Drystone’s reader, with the downloaded files in an ordinary folder on your computer. Run Drystone again and it brings your archive up to date without removing anything: messages later deleted in Slack are kept, and edited ones keep their earlier wording. An interrupted export picks up where it stopped.
Custodian
Keeps watch over your car, van or motorhome, on the road and in storage.
Find out more about the Custodian GPS tracker at themotorcustodian.com.
Custodian is a GPS tracker for any car, van or motorhome in the UK. A small tracker in the vehicle reports its position, so you can see on a live map where it is, where it’s been and whether it moved overnight.
For classic cars and vehicles kept in storage, Custodian goes further. Separate Bluetooth temperature and humidity sensors sit inside the vehicle, so you can spot damp air before it turns to condensation and mould. They are just as useful in a motorhome.
On every vehicle, Custodian logs each trip with its route, distance and duration, and flags fast driving. Its battery monitor charts the 12-volt battery and raises an alert when it runs low. Another alert is raised if the vehicle leaves a place you’ve marked on the map, such as a garage, a barn or a storage site.
Consultancy
As well as our own products, we take on software development and consultancy for other businesses.
AI integration
Chatbots, recommendations and the automation of routine work, built on existing AI tools and platforms.
Serverless AWS consultancy
Applications on AWS Lambda, API Gateway and Step Functions that scale with demand and leave no servers to manage.
Bespoke software development
Web applications, mobile apps and business systems, built around how your organisation works.